Cast-off.



PATENTED NOV. 17, 1903.

R. F. BARTEL.

CAST OFF.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 14. 1903.

NO MODEL.

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Patented November 17, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

RUDOLPH F. BARTEL, OF BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY.

CAST-OFF.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 744,279, dated November 1'7, 1903.

Application filed April 14, 1903. Serial No. 152.590.. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUDOLPH F. BARTEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bayonne, in the count-y of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cast-Offs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cast-ofis; and it consists of certain features of construction possessing various advantages, such as requisite strength and durability and cheapness or simplicity of manufacture, as set forth in the following specification and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 illustrates the invention applied to a suspender, or rather to the strap or band portion of a suspender. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a blank as cut or coming from the die before being bent. Fig. 4 shows a modified form of blank. Fig. 5 shows a cast-off formed from the blank of Fig. 4:.

'In the drawings, the letter a indicates what may be called the main or body portion of the cast-off. A book portion is shown at a and is adapted to supportasuspender-end b. A spring or tongue a is adapted to prevent the buttonhole parts of the ends 1) running through the hook a as also to prevent the main or cord parts of said ends or loops unhooking or coming out of such seat or hook. The Suspender-end b can thus be properly confined in the hook (1*, so as not to come loose while being worn nor to run or slip out of the hook a (on account of the widened button ends ofthe suspender-ends) when the suspenders are loose or not wornsay, when exhibited in a store. Said spring a can, however, be pressed or moved to releasing position to allow the Suspender-end to be unhooked or drawn out, as also hooked or replaced on the shank a The freeend of the spring a? is shown curved, so as to provide a suitable stop a or hold for keeping thesuspender-end bin place, and the hook a has an aperture or receiving portion a for the free or curved end a of the spring a when the latter is pressed out of its normal position.

When free, the spring a lies in the path of the suspender-end to confine the latter. On pressing or moving the free end a of the spring toward the shank a or into the aperture a such spring a is out of the way and frees the suspender-end for allowing withdrawal of the latter.

The spring-tongue a is integral with the remainder of the cast-oft. In forming or cutting the blank, as seenin Fig. 3or in Fig. 4, the top or portion a* of the body is out in loop or ring form, and the spring a is bent out from the loop to leave the latter partly open or hookshaped, but not open to such an extent that the suspender-strap e will disengage from the cast-off when being worn or subject to pull or strain.

At the junction of theparts a, and a.* the blank is preferably cut in rounded or spreading form, as seen in Fig. 3 or Fig. 4, to avoid a sharp angle, as also to avoid weakening of the sheet metal from which the blank is formed.

The hook at is bent into curved or ridge form to correspond to the curvature of the end I) and to give a surface orcurve over which the end can slide back and forth without chafing or striking a sharp edge.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cast-01f composed of one integral piece of sheet metal and shaped to form a hook with curved sliding surface for a Suspender-end, and aloop portion and spring-tongue cut from the loop portion to leave the latter partly open or hook-shaped, said spring having its free end bent to form a confining-shoulder over the hook and the body of the cast-off having an aperture to receive the bent free end of the spring.

2. A cast-off composed of an integral piece of sheet metal cut to form laterally-projecting loop portions and having an aperture, one end portion of the metal being bent to form a hook with curved strap-receiving surface, and the other end portion of the metal being cut from the loop portion and bent to leave said loop portion partly open and to form a spring with bent end portion adapted to be pressed into the aperture, the bent end of said spring lying within the hook.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUDOLPH F. BARTEL. Witnesses: E. F. KASTENHUBER, CHAS. E. POENSGEN. 

